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Ode To My Father

One promise can shape a lifetime

2014 · 2h 6m · N/A Drama

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Korea, 1950. A child's vow to take care of his family marks the beginning of a lifelong promise spanning sixty years.

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67%
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Fresh

Tugging shamelessly yet persuasively on the heartstrings, "Ode to My Father" is an epic South Korean melodrama capturing more than half a century of recent history through the eyes of an everyman shopkeeper.

Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times
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"Ode to My Father" may have slain them in South Korea, but its packaged pain and bullet-point structure are likely to leave Western audiences cold.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
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Everything is lathered with a syrupy, string-laden musical score designed to gnaw at a viewer's tear ducts. It's about as subtle as having an off-screen narrator yell "Start crying!" before big scenes, and probably as effective.

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic

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